VOYAGER LECTURE SERIES

Southern Utah History Through Picture and Word

With Lyman Hafen and Roland Lee

Tuesday, February 25, 7:30pm

Social Hour begins at 6:30pm

The Lorraine Boccardo Theater

This year’s Voyager Lecture Series follows “The History of This Land,” from the deep time studied in geology, through modern concerns related to our changing environment.

For February’s lecture, hear from writer Lyman Hafen and artist Roland Lee as they explore the history of Southern Utah through art and literature. 

Lyman Hafen and his wife Debbie are natives of St. George, Utah. Lyman graduated from Dixie College where he discovered a love for learning and literature and came to terms with the idea that he would spend his life telling the compelling stories of this place to the world. After completing his education at Brigham Young University with a bachelor’s degree in communications, he co-founded St. George Magazine in 1983, and was its editor for 16 years. He continues to write a bi-monthly column chronicling the history, culture and personality of his fast-changing hometown. He has written twelve books of fiction and nonfiction, and his writing has been honored on several occasions by the Utah Arts Council. Lyman is host of the NOT FORGOTTEN podcast sharing the legacy of stories of southern Utah. He recently retired after serving 25 years as executive director of Zion Natural History Association (now the Zion Forever Project) in Zion National Park.

Roland Lee and his wife Nellie have lived in St. George for over 50 years. Roland’s interest in pioneer history has led him to do a series of watercolor paintings of early southern Utah as well as following the pioneer trail of his own ancestors. His historical paintings have appeared on the covers of The Ensign magazine and Pioneer magazine, published by the Sons of Utah Pioneers. With paintings in over 2000 public and private collections, Roland has been honored with the Governor’s Mansion Medal and a 40-year retrospective of his work at the Sears Museum. Over the past 40 years he has teamed up with writer Lyman Hafen on many books and publications. At the Voyager lecture Lyman will share his writings and Roland will show slides of his historical paintings while together sharing their appreciation for those who came before us.